Read a review of the first Coloursound album from The Phantom Tollbooth.
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Review: Change
***** (= 5 out of 5 stars) “You are hereby warned: The Alarm will become one of the leading rockbands in the 90’s. If you don’t want to sit notknowing with your beard in the mailbox you should invest in the Change – album immediately and learn all of the 12 tunes (14 on cd) by heart before advent starts. The Alarm are no longer U2-copyists. Their last LP, In [read more]
Review: Change
Still on a roll from a year of Bob Dylan supports, The Alarm make up for lost time this side of the Atlantic with a Tony Visconti-produced concept LP that bemoans the fate of their ailing Welsh homeland. Simultaneously released with Welsh language vocals as Change, this is a stadium-sized pub-rock set that lacks the gusto and rampant commerciality of their 68 Guns secondhand The Clash without ever really living [read more]
Review: Coloursound
Legends in their own times, Billy Duffy, the axeman for The Cult, and Mike Peters, the front-man for The Alarm, have teamed up to create an album of full-throttle, guitar-driven rockers and melodic alterna-pop hits. Although this project was born out of mutual respect and friendship not ambition, their collaboration to reconquer the airwaves makes good marketing sense. Both of these blokes rose and fell from fame with a series [read more]